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For the record (because I just looked it up, as I also have this problem): it's ctrl+tab, but only if you enable "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" in Settings first.

Also, usually, ctrl + shift + tab goes the opposite way
Default behavior is for psychopaths.
I'm so confused every time I use a new browser.
Ok that's incredible. I'm gonna get so lost now I've changed that setting. Magnificent
It’s so odd to me that this isn’t the default behaviour for all browsers especially Edge. It’s literally alt+tab behaviour but for some reason browser designers decided it wouldn’t work that way.
- This works in edge. Alt+tab also cycles between 2 tabs in edge if a previos tab was selected, or between windows if not. Which annoys the hell out of me, going from email to edge, switching to the tab I need to copy from and expecting alt+tab to bring me back to email and instead just goes back to the tab I didn't want.

jesus. just use bookmarks.

Would Jesus' bookmark be shaped like a cross (morbid) or a fish (practical)?
- jesus looks like a slip of paper kinda guy
They do - https://lemmy.ml/post/33005112/19801519
- i wonder if they ever check back on those bookmarks

Had to check if this was a post from adhsmemes group.

i know that you're suffering but, still, thanks for the laughter ! @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml

Dude answered his own question. Click random tab -> drag current tab off the window -> window returns to previous tab without any tabs being closed.
Unhinged behavior nonetheless
Control+Shift+T restores the last closed tab. That solution works lol (but it really feels like it shouldn't)
Is there a command that closes all tabs because I would 100% recommend that one to the guy

Y'all crazy tab people need raindrop.io or something.

Best start a new tab and Google whatever you were looking at.

can I watch an intervention for a tab addict

Crtl + L to go to address bar, type % then a space, then the tab you looking for. Will search open tabs

Helpful, but only works if I remember the name of the tab.
- It's either Facebook or Facebook.
In this I wish Firefox was more like Chromium. I use tab search a lot and Ctrl + Shift + A is much more efficient than this 3-step combo
- will let you search your bookmark. I think there might be one for history as well.
  Plus there might be a similar macro in Firefox I just don't know about
- Maybe something like this?
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab_search/

This is why tab search is a thing 😭

But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I'm dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I'll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.
It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.

My brain can't handle more than a dozen open tabs. If I need more than 8 or so, I'll sling some in another browser instance. I honestly don't know if this is because I'm dumb or smart, but at my last jobs the smarter people always had about 2 dozen tabs open. LOL, no one ever rebooted.

I work with someone who never closes a tab. They'll just keep plowing ahead until they literally have to reboot their computer for lack of resources. Physical clutter doesn't bother me much, but I have to look away when they share their screen.
- I had a user that did this with outlook emails all the time. Since she was in leadership, we had to put up with it. At one point we even had to escalate it to Microsoft and they came back saying that Outlook is simply not designed to be used in such a fashion. That did not dissuade the user at all. After maxing out the computer specs, she ended up exceeding the actual limitation of the software for resources used.
  I think eventually she got fired for incompetence for other things. It was quite a relief.
- Firefox tabs survive reboots and waste about as much resources as a bookmark. Those people should really migrate.
- clearly they need more RAM

What do browsers even let you do this? I feel like it should cap out at like 200 max. Nobody even needs 200 but there's got to be some kind of limit somewhere.

200 is newbie numbers.
- Damn, I start getting overwhelmed at 10
If you can bg inactive tabs they just become another type of bookmark, because they don't the up any memory
- Then use bookmarks. We shouldn't design around people using products completely incorrectly.

That seems perfectly reasonable. That is little more than 100 tabs per window. I routinely have more than 500 tabs per window. Currently, I have 3 windows open with a rough total of 15000 tabs

Why?
- ADHD is like that.
Bro use the fucking bookmarks feature. Your electric company will appreciate the 10% reduction in grid load.
- Firefox only actually allocates memory for loaded tabs. I have >400 open at the moment but the 700MiB of memory are shared between three bloated websites and Firefox itself.

surely bookmark exist, why not bookmark your opened page ?
i remembered my old friend who has tons of chrome tab filled with porn

Isn't it alt + left? I could swear I've done it before (but maybe not on Firefox...?)

That's the back button

Meanwhile when I was looking for a new browser a bit back I tried finding one without a tab feature at all lol

I believe, you can basically turn it off in Firefox, by telling it to open new windows instead of tabs.
Might need to hide the tab bar via userChrome.css, though...
- Oh I have it figured out now :3
  But ye, I have my browser set to launch a new window. Not on firefox tho, I switched off of it cause I didn't care to mess with files just to get the tab bar off of my screen lol

https://lemmy.world/post/19332358

How much ram do they have?

in case you're not aware: modern browsers don't actually keep all tabs loaded all the time.
- Shhhh don't make us feel old.
all of it
- I was wondering why I couldn't find mine. I figured I just had short term memory loss.
- This is the way.

There are search in tab title extensions around, if your herding extension for the thousands of tabs not already supports that.

Pretty sure Firefox can search for open tabs directly from the Awesome Bar out of the box. Can't remember the specific character that activates that filter on the bar. Maybe ^ or ~
- Somebody else mentioned '%' but even without that if the URL matches completely it will default to switching to an open tab with it already open.
- Not sure. It seems it does or maybe not and it should, but i can't find how.

probably shift-command-tilde, since command-tilde is “next tab”. You can remember it because it’s one key away from command-tab and shift-command-tab to go to the next application and previous application.

@aard@kyu.de is that an actual issue for you?

treestyle tabs helps a lot with tab organization. Reasonably amount of tabs can't really be managed with the default tab interface of any browser (haven't tried the recently added native vertical tabs yet - they also added in tab groups, which I was heavily relying on before they ripped it out a bit over a decade ago. Not sure if I'll find back to my old workflow after all that time, though)
- I love the new vertical tabs. I just wish I could select which side of the window the sidebar is placed on per window since I have a browser on each monitor.
  I also sort my tabs by entertainment or manuals in the one window, active reading or similar in the main window. That helps sort my 400+ tabs enough and if that's not enough I can always search.
- People really reinvent things like a bookmark manager.

Is that you Scott?

Ctrl + tab if LRU is set.
It's like alt + tab for windows, but for tabs. :)

Also: Ctrl + h.... What?! A searchable history of all URLs ever clicked? Tomfoolery!